Both Facts and Feelings: Emotion and News Literacy

Flibanserin Approval: Facts or Feelings?

On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a first in class multifunctional serotonin agonist and antagonist medication, flibanserin, for the treatment of generalized acquired hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in premenopausal women. This approval was surrounded by political posturing that has resulted in naysayers attacking the science based on their feelin...

Breaking bad news: doctors' feelings and behaviors.

The announcement about the handicap of a child is communicated to parents by gynecologists or ultrasonographists, in the prenatal period. Often, these professionals are not prepared to communicate this news to the parents, and they have some limitations that lead them to act inappropriately. Therefore, the aims of this research were to identify and to describe the feelings of professionals faci...

Self-Esteem and Emotion: Some Thoughts About Feelings

Self-esteem has been linked to a diverse array of positive and negative affective states. The present research explored the nature of these relationships. Study 1 found that self-esteem (as measured by the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale) is more closely associated with self-relevant emotional states than with emotional states that do not directly implicate the self. Study 2 replicated these findin...

Representing Death and its Emotion-eliciting Symbols in Virtual News Channels

Aim: Television and news programs are full of scenes that remind us that life will no doubt end. The purpose of this study was to investigate the representation of death news and its exciting symbols in virtual news channels. Methods: The research method was qualitative and thematic analysis was used. The population of the study included virtual news channel contents and the sample were four hi...

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